The oldest in Western Europe, this fractured skull has introduced a series of new questions about early humanity.

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for ...

Analysis - Piecing together the story of Europe's earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils ...

Archaeologists have discovered fossilized facial bones of an ancient human race which lived roughly 1.4 million years ago, ...

On March 12, researchers announced the discovery of a new fossil from the excavation site of Sime del Elefante, near Burgos in Spain ... as Neanderthals and Homo erectus. Nicknamed “Rosa ...

The Atapuerca mountains in Spain are a true sanctuary for paleoanthropologists ... This morphology is more reminiscent of Homo erectus, a human ancestor that left Africa around 1.8 million years ago.

The story about our ancestors can change at any moment thanks to the tireless work of researchers. In 2022, a team of experts unearthed fragments of a human skull in the Sima del E ...

The remains were first discovered in 2022 in the Sima del Elefante cave in Burgos, Spain. The person ... resembling Homo erectus, particularly in its flat and underdeveloped nasal structure ...